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NJ bill would allow ‘Medical Parole’ for inmates with incapacitating illnesses
Legislation’s sponsor estimates program could save state $5 million to $9 million annually. Inmates with illnesses that have ...
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ListenPennsylvania’s budget: Still no deal in sight
Summertime might mean easy living for members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, who are not scheduled to meet again until Aug ...
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ListenART OF FOOD – PRODUCED BY MONICA ROGOZINSKI, EDITED BY TAMERAH A. SLAUGHTER Almost every aspect of a prison h ...
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Before pink became synonymous with breast cancer, there was peach
The humble beginnings of breast cancer awareness. I called Nancy Haley because I wanted to hear about her mother, the late Charlot ...
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ListenDo Lincoln University prof’s comments amount to hate speech?
A tenured professor at Lincoln University who in 2010 questioned the Holocaust and called for Israel’s destruction is now making de ...
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ListenAs the number of cycling kids plummets, school programs step in
The childhood joy of two-wheeled neighborhood discovery is threatened by screen time and safety concerns. On a warm afternoon at G ...
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ListenThe Americans with Disabilities Act turns 25, still faces daunting challenges
The ADA is regularly touted as a spectacularly successful piece of legislation, but the employment picture for the disabled is a frontier ...
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ListenText therapy could breakdown socioeconomic boundaries…but what about state laws?
A new web-based venture hopes to democratize access to therapy. The potential downside: prison time. In the therapy world, technol ...
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ListenWeird science jobs: grocer of the seas
In February, a British engineer announced he had found the strongest natural material on Earth, the teeth of a type of sea snail called t ...
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ListenA job that’s one big balancing act
Do you ever feel you’ve been juggling too many things, trying to balance too much stuff at work? Tray Duffy experience ...
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ListenTwo years ago, doctors declared obesity a disease, but critics say, “Don’t pathologize my size!” Two years after the ...
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ListenCould swallowable cameras replace the colonoscopy?
For reasons that are never made completely clear, gastroenterologist Mitchell Conn keeps a ha ...
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ListenThe science of dog fur and why cutting is not cool
When the stifling heat and sweaty humidity of summer comes crushing down on you, imagine putting on a fur coat. It’s hard to ...
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ListenA&P’s second bankruptcy just the latest in market shakeup
The latest supermarket shakeup is under way for Philadelphia-area shoppers. NewsWorks Tonight host Dave Heller turned for the detai ...
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ListenWhy do some patients cry after anesthesia?
This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and scie ...
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